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Genderlect Styles

Across
Deborah Tannen's research specialty
Social construct devised by humans to define differences in masculine and feminine roles, behaviours, and acitvities
Men assume a lecture style to establish a “one-up” position, command attention, convey information, and insist on agreement
Women talk more than men in this type of conversation
Suggests that masculine and feminine styles of conversations are best viewed as 2 different cultural dialects
Women want to talk things out and then make love later while men want to connect by making love and talking later
Conversation style, which seeks to establish connection with others
Tannen's cross-cultural approach to gender differences departs from much of feminist scholarship that claims conversations between men and women reflect men's efforts to _______ women(pg.433)
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A book that seeks to explain why men and women talk past each other
Theory that seeks to explain communication style between this gender
Theory that seeks to explain communication style with this gender
A supportive interruption often meant to show agreement and solidarity with the speaker
These people share understandings about goals of communication, strategies for enacting those goals, and ways of interpreting communication
Monologic style which seeks to command attention, convey information, and win arguments
Lingusitics professor at Georgetown University
Subjective standard ascribing validity to an idea when it resonates with one's personal experience
"That was a good movie, don't you think?"
Men are more comfortable with this than women